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Family Festival: 19th Annual Kaleidoscope

Join us for a free day of discovery, creativity, and family fun. Play Surrealist games, enjoy art activities and performances inspired by the exhibition Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938, and explore activity stations for all ages (teens too!). On hand for all the fun will be Art Institute staff, guest artists, and partners from some of Chicago’s finest arts organizations, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lurie Garden, National Museum of Mexican Art, and Poetry Foundation. Don’t miss your chance to meet the Art Institute’s mascot, Artie the Lion!

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1 hour 55 min agoThe Art Institute of ChicagoNOW ON VIEW—Kemang Wa Lehulere: In All My Wildest Dreams
Artist Kemang Wa Lehulere describes his work as a “protest against forgetting,” reenacting what he calls “deleted scenes” from South African history through a masterful conflation of personal and collective storytelling. See his first American museum show, In All My Wildest Dreams—on view through January 16.
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6 hours 41 min agoThe Art Institute of ChicagoNOW ON VIEW—A new photography rotation showcases groundbreaking Contemporary works from artists like John Baldessari, Sally Mann, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, among others—on view in Gallery 10 through January 2.
Image: Richard Misrach. Untitled #696–05, from series On the Beach, 2005. Gift of the artist.

1 day 2 hours agoThe Art Institute of ChicagoToulouse-Lautrec’s work increased the visibility of lesbians in 19th-century Paris, portraying them in a sympathetic light when prevailing perceptions were anything but favorable.